Book/Printed Material The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of the removal of the national capital.
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Image 1 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... i%*- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 2 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... Class, Book. F/?s ■z?- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
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Image 3 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
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Image 4 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
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Image 5 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. LETTER TO PRESIDENT GRANT UN Till-; Sl BJKCT OF TIIK KEJIOVAI, NATIONAL APIT BY L. U. HE AVIS. Si- ^~L^^ 4 4 ST. LOUIS: MiaSOURI DEMOCRAT BOOK AXD...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 6 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
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Image 7 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... c^^ THE REMOVAL OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [from the liURLINGTOX IOWA IIAWKEYE.] Mr. L. U. Rcavis, of St. Louis, addresses a long and ex- haustive letter to President Grant on the subject...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 8 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT. [Fro»i rhe N cio York Tribune, January 2S, 1S71. PRESIDENT grant s REMARKS ON THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL CONSIDERED THE ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 9 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 5 with prophetic eyes, the rising glory and greatness of the nation, and foreseen the coming changes in the governmental dominion, and the redistribution of political and material...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 10 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. unpopular i or a person coming from that part of tlie country where I belong, but it is nevertheless expressed with earnestness and without reserve. Gentlemen, I thank...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 11 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. the States, and to all the people. Standing upon this hroad basis of; political right, you must know that the subject of the removal of the National Capital...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 12 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... O THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 5. It is assumed by the friends of Capital removal that the center of human power in this nation ^Yill be fixed and organized, at an early...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 13 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... TiiE :;ational capital movable. y fifom year to year at the seat of government; and for this, too, it is the right of the people to demand its removal to the central...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 14 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 10 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. POPULATION. Tliis is tlie most interesting and valuable part of the whole argument. As I have already stated, the entire population of our country in 1790, -when...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 15 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 11 lation of Dr. Elder as being correct, inay we not assume that, before the century expires, more than 100,000,000 people will occupy the present area of our...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 16 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 12 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. erals have hardly begun to be fairly developed. The value of the commerce of the Mississippi is estimated at $2,000,000; and the Agricultural Bureau, basing its calculations...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 17 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. l3 Senators and one litindrcd and twenty Representatives in tbe Na- tional Legislature. The Mississippi Valley lias an area of 2,445,000 square miles, with less than one-third of...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 18 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 14 TUE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. Do you claim the right to exercise such unlawful authority li you do, let me advise you to reverse your decision, for no power on earth can...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 19 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 15* bere quote from a paper prepared from the debates by Mr. George Alfred Townsend, as follows The main argument of the tradesmen and property-holders of the village...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 20 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... .16 THE NATIONAL CAPIIAL MOVABLE. Wasliington City would have had a ghost of a chance for being the Capital site ten years after its foundation. Virginia alone kept the seat of Government...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 21 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIO rAT, (,/?.TAL MOVABLE. 17 Had Scott so spoken hi tht^se lys he would have been accused, in the garbage prints of Washnigton, ol speculating in St. Louis corner lots Mr....- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 22 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 18 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. Id ought to be in a situation to command information from every part of the Union to watch every conjecture to seize every circumstance that can be...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 23 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 19 r apitol wings were in ashes, and Congress met in the unfinished Patent Office. I append the material extracts from the debates. Mr. Fisk, of New York...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 24 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 20 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. Mr. Hansow, of Maryland, entertained very great contempt for the people of Washington. The Speaker. Langdon Cheves, S. C, said: This District cannot be defended, except at...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 25 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAriTAL MOVABLE. 21 every member north of: Maryland, and a few of the hardy sons of the West, apparently dissatisfied with their accommodations. Mr. Grosv ^enor, of New York, alluded...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 26 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 22 THE NATIONAL CAriTAL MOVABLE. no Committees from the banks of the Missouri, or even tlie Ohio, lobbying in these halls to regulate tariff duties. No they had no association in those...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 27 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 23 Mr. Thomas II. Benton, in the Senate, January 8, 1848, said: I am entirely opposed to any action by which an association of individuals can lay hold...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 28 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 24 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. Now, Mr. President, I -wish you to bear in mind that the above is the only clause in the Constitution touching the subject of the seat of...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 29 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 25 right, which he held to be incontestable, to remove the seat of government, the right of parting -with any portion of it was apparent. The act of...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 30 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 26 THE NATIONAL CAriTAL MOVABLE. its exercise by the majority iiilieres in them from the very nature of: the government. In support ol: these two fundamental propositions I offer all the facts...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 31 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 27 anj in fifty years from to-day, upon the ratio of increase for tlie last half century, it will contain about eight-tenths of all tho population and Avoalth...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 32 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 28 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. Looking bejonJ to the future growth of our Continental Gov- ernment, Henry Clay said, in a speech made in the United States Senate, January, 1824, on the...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 33 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 29 require more people than a century can produce, even at the rate doubling once in twenty-five years a rate which will give us 160,000,000 in the year...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 34 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 30 TEE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. have always pitched their tents near the setting sun, and the conquests of the one and the triumphs of the other have left fruits to ripen and...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 35 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... TUE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 31 men for the vast future of this continental country, so ■vvijl it furnish the religion, whose all-embracing forms are to invite the entire people into the simple...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 36 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 32 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. thousands of the wisest men have declared the removal oi: the Capital to be inevitable. Said the Hon. Wm. H. Seward, in a political speech at St....- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 37 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE IJATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. SS tal should be a great city. I prefer our greatest city, supporting a perfectly independent press, whereby all the acts and leanings of the Government would be...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 38 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 84 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. nation central to the States of the Atlantic .slope, and adapted to the wants of an infant people, has, in the multiplication of States to imperial Republic,...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 39 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. 35 pose ol: narrating from day to day all the toady doings of the so-called fashionable suppers, and dinners, and kissing parties c., c. When these things are...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871
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Image 40 of The national capital movable. A letter to President Grant on the subject of ... 36 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL MOVABLE. power will extend one to the Atlantic, the other to the Pacific giving parental protection to the children of the nation upon the shores of the Eastern...- Contributor: Reavis, L. U.
- Date: 1871